Why I Am Not a Christian

by Bertrand Russell

I think, however, that there are two different items which are quite essential to anybody calling himself a Christian.

You know, of course, that the Catholic Church has laid it down as a dogma that the existence of God can be proved by the unaided reason.

"My father taught me that the question 'Who made me?' cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question `Who made god?'"

Then why should God have a beginning? Maybe he always existed if he did.

We now find that a great many things we thought were natural laws are really human conventions.

then God himself was subject to law, and therefore you do not get any advantage by introducing God as an intermediary. You really have a law outside and anterior to the divine edicts,

There is no evidence of design about it.